The section's mission:
This mission includes, but is not limited to:
- Enhancement of healthy lifestyles (by dietary counselling, exercise prescription/training and physical activity, psychosocial and motivational counselling/health, smoking cessation)
- Risk factor management (e.g. obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia and non-conventional risk factors)
- Implementation of comprehensive, multidisciplinary prevention and exercise-based rehabilitation programs (centre-based and tele-rehabilitation) for persons with acquired or congenital cardiovascular disease or elevated cardiovascular risk (including challenging populations such as organ transplant recipients or persons with chronic renal failure, frailty or cancer)
- Basic and translational research to study the underlying mechanisms involved in the health-promoting effects of secondary prevention and rehabilitation, which will contribute to optimised treatments to persons with cardiovascular disease
Section Nucleus 2022-2024
Chair: Roberto Pedretti (IT)
Chair-elect: Matthias Wilhelm (CH)
Secretary: Véronique Cornelissen (BE)
Past-Chair, Executive Officer liaison: Dominique Hansen (BE)
Nucleus members:
- Maria Back (SE)
- Scott Bowen (UK)
- Stefan Busnatu (RO)
- Carmen de Pablo y Zarzosa (ES)
- Andreas Gevaert (BE)
- Dominique Hansen (BE)
- Jari Laukkanen (FI)
- Elena Marques Sule (ES)
- Daniel Neunhaeuserer (IT)
- Elena Osto (CH)
- Annett Salzwedel (DE)
- Kai Savonen (FI)
- Martijn Scherrenberg (BE)
- Elena Tessitore (CH)
- David R Thompson (UK)
Advisors (non-voting):
- Nicolle Kränkel (DE)
- Henner Hanssen (CH)
- Marcus Dörr (DE)
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